The Fifth Hour: Ballroom Benny & Blue Guns

here we are. I like the extended winner, unbel kicking the tires in the audio box, walking a tight rope. Danny G. Yet again all the other shows keep saying, this is the first time we're broadcasting in not us, man, We've already been on the air. That's right, we're your seasoned veterans, season veterans in the podcast game. I did notice, though you can't see this if you're watching the podcast unfortunately, Danny G. Not wearing a Raider hat, not wearing a

Laker hat? Is that a Is that a hat from the I believe it is from the Hawaiian Islands? Is that a ye? It's a Kawaii hat, al right, I love that. That's a great that's a great hat. So looking at it now that there's a Raider's shirt though, so I understand. But I'm looking for you your hat there and that did you feel guilty buying that hat? Like you? I've known you for many years. I don't think I've seen you in anything other than Raider, Laker,

or Dodger hats. No. I have a few non sports hats, mostly snapbacks, and this happens to be one of them. Got this on the honeymoon. That's a good looking hat. Yeah, did did? Did you get that as a souvenir or because you needed a hat and it was like sunny or something like that. It was actually the one day in Kawai where it was pouring down rain. Every other day there on the islands was sunny, eighty perfect. There was one day, though, where it was like a monsoon,

the puddles up to the top of our socks. Right across from where we were eating, there was a little surf shop and that's where I got this hat. Interesting. One of the two worst weather events I've ever been in was in Kawaii. We we were shopping at of course, we were like, there was like a kmart, which I don't even think is there anymore. We were in the kmart and there was this big We didn't look at the forecast when we were there. We're like, it was

in Hawaii. It's gonna be seventy seventy nine degrees eighty five degrees every day. And so we're in the store and like the power starts flickering and there's this massive monsoon of a rainstorm. It was like the worst rain. It was a tropical depression that came through Kawaii and we didn't know about it. So when the store, the lights go out and we we had to get out of there. It was still raining. So I went out, I got the rental car, and I pulled the rental

car up on the sidewalk. So my my now wife at that time I just got married, Um, she could get in the car without having to walk. I was completely drenched by the time I got to my car. It was horrible and I felt like I had taken a bath or I gone swimming in an Olympic sized pool. It's unreal the rain because there's nothing to stop it, Like it's obviously you're in an island. Yeah, what are the locals told us? He said, when it comes down here, it really comes down quick man. The tourists they were

running screaming. It was fun to watch. It was the best people watching of the entire trip. It's like the cocka roaches when you turn the lights on, they're running around, scurring around the floor. On this podcast, we've got Ballroom Benny, developmental writer, Good Eats, Pop goes, the culture and back scratches. So a lot to get to, but let's start with this now. Yala, New Year's Eve three. You're here, so you had a good New Year's Eve. I assumed you're

you're alive, So that's good. You're listening, um. And if you follow me on social media, I don't post personal photos on Twitter because that's a cesspool. But on Facebook and Instagram all usually, you know, a couple of times a month, I'll post what's going on in my life. For some reason, people seem to like that, Danny. I don't know why. It's very odd to me, but people

seem to enjoy that. And so if you do follow me on social media on Facebook or Instagram, you probably saw some photos that I posted last week, but now you're about to hear the rest all of the story, right, rest of the stories we are firing and all sylinaters here. So I visited with the wife there. We went on in a very romantic day to the iconic Cicada Club in downtown l A. I've been there before, I've talked about it on the podcast. I think we've been there

one other time. But this is just the jacent to skid Row, which is pretty much all of downtown Los Angeles at this point. It's it's in this really cool Art deco building to kind of paint the picture for you. And there are some beautiful buildings when downtown l A was getting built in the middle of the madness down there, which is now just terrible. But but anyway, this is like a really cool old building. And my wife loves this place, very elegant, you know, she's into that kind

of thing. Get get all dolled up and all that. I've actually I'm I'm maturing Danny because I actually don't hate going there. I actually kind of appreciate it. It's kind of cool. I must be getting old, I must be getting bored and old because I younger me younger Benny would have been like, you know, screw that, I don't want to go on to go to a place

like that boring, But I actually enjoyed it. There's a lot of history and an ambiance, and it's this this old dance hall that dates back almost a hundred years. It is since we're in three. It dates back to the ninth the Roaring nineteen twenties. It was originally built as a haberdashery in nineteen twenty, so it's a ninety five year old building. I realize if you're in Boston or New York or Philadelphia, there's there's buildings that are

way older than that. But in l A there's not a lot that's that old because there's these things called earthquakes and buildings down and bulldozers and real estate greed exactly exactly, So this place is on the National Registry of Historic Places, so it's not going anywhere. It was built by French designers and artisans of the day, and they even have a dress code. Danny, I have very rarely go to a place with a dress code. You

gotta wear vintage business or evening attire. Gentlemen they say code and tie no jeans, no zip jackets, no shorts, no T shirts, sneakers or flip flops, which is pretty much my entire wardrobe cent at a time. Psalms, screwed ladies. You gotta wear cocktail dress, skirt or paint suit with matching jacket. No sneakers or flip flops, ant suit. That's not a good look, is it. Oh, it's like Mary

Tyler Moore. Yeah, you don't want that. So this place the history on it in the early days of l a back in the nineteen late nineteen twenties, early nineteen thirties when Hollywood was really taken off and they were going from silent films to spoken word films and all that Hollywood legends of the people like Clark Gable, John Barrymore and other big stars of that era. We're hanging

out at this location. So it's kind of cool thing about the old legends of Hollywood back when Hollywood was really like the think about all the drugs, alcohol abuse, womanizing that has gone on there years and years. And also when I saw the pictures you posted, the first thing that I thought of It looks like a place that Louis Armstrong would have been playing live music at Oh yeah, for sure. You know, Danny, if you wanna, you wanna meet up there, we could do like a

double date. I know your your wife's got a bun in the oven there, but she's I don't know if you would. You think she'd be into that kind of thing. I don't know. I'm not sure. If they have food there, then she's in because all she's been doing lately is eating. Oh yeah, you can't hit the bar there. They have a big bar, very expensive stadium like prices on the alcohol at this place. They do a restaurant. The menu

is not really my jam. You can either buy the dinner, which costs more, or then you just kind of hang out there and drink alcohol. What about the ticket to get in because they say that holiday is a sucker's night because of all the entry fees to get into these places. Yeah. So the way that works, Danny, in my marriage, and I don't know about your marriage you're newly married, is I get very upset when I find

out how much ship like that cost. So it's pretty much. Uh, it's like the old military slogan, don't ask, don't tell, I don't ask how much it costs my wife does not tell it worked for the United States Military for a long time. It works for our marriage a long time. Because if I knew how much was being spent, Uh, I had probably have Uh I have a coronary, is what I have? You know? All right? She got the tickets. Yeah,

she made sure to buy the things. But the other thing, when I was in there and I was thinking about like old Hollywood, I was like, you know, my favorite old Hollywood person And I don't even know if he was a good actor or a comedian, this guy W. C. Fields. And I wonder because he was a big star in the nineteen forties. I wonder if he hung out at

that that club, the Cassada, uh, the Cicada Club. And he has my favorite quote of all time, which is if he can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit. It's from the all time great quotes. And Uh. Anyway, I was, I was ballroom and I did some dancing. People were like, well, how do you did? Do you know what? How I dance? You got two left fee? And I admit, Danny, I suck at dancing. You you probably have the moves out there, you know how to dance.

You're more of a dance. I don't know how to dance. I don't know what the funk I'm doing, but I figured, you know, happy wife, happy life. My wife likes to dance, and so I make an effort, and I pretty much

fake it till I make it. My strategy. When I'm on the dance floor, Danny, and it's like ballroom dancing, so I'm kind of like just looking at what the other dudes are doing, and I'm like, okay, I can kind of mimic that, you know, step to the right, step to the left, you know, back and forth, you know, spend the girl around. I can figure that out. That's not that hard. It's like the movie, Oh, what's the name of the movie where he's got the one move

on the dance floor. He's trying to get the hot blood and he's like shaking the fake dice and his friends are like looking at him. They're like, he's got one move, but he's really working that one move. That's all you really need, man. As long as you're out there having fun, that's all that matters. I've been on dates where the girls were like crazy into dancing and they were a little harder to keep up with, even though I can dance. But at the end it was

a big smile on their face. The old saying is if you won't take the girl out to dance, some other guy will. Yeah, no, no, for sure, and it was you know, it's cool, and heck, man, I'm a guy. I didn't even go to my proms, so I haven't done a lot of dancing in the in my days here. But it was cool. I'm sure we'll be there again. My wife always wants people to join us. She's like, yes, invite your friends, and my friends are busy they can't come. But uh so, if you want to do a double date, Danny,

we'll have to make that happen at some point. I know that might be way down the line because there is a developmental raider who, I believe, if my math is correct, will be on the board available for the Raiders to draft. Let me do the math on this. In the year, Oh my god, oh my, twenty forty five. Oh man, oh man, dandy, we still be podcasting. I don't even know we'll be alive, but man, better be alive. I know I plan on being alive, but investilated plans

of mice men and podcasters. But yeah, I congratulations, and Danny and you found the big news. Tell us how it all went down. Give me the inside skinny, the behind the scenes. Yeah. So if we uh go swing dancing at that old club with you, it's gonna have to be a few months after August. August ten is the exact do date. You know that hardly ever hits. But yeah, my chick, she uh, speaking of spending money, she sent ninety dollars to the Amazon folks and got

one of those DNA kits. You know, it used to be that you'd have to wait enough weeks into it where the doctor could finally do the ultrasound and you could see some balls, and that's how they knew. Now they have these very advanced DNA tests that you just mail back and they email you with the announcement. So my girl got the email just a couple of days ago. She shows me her phone and it's blue balloons on the screen and it says it's a boy. Oh wow,

that's great, that's awesome, awesome to see. And then, of course, you know, the modern generation, they like the gender reveal parties, they like the the gender reveal guns, that shoot the blue or the pink confetti, and so that was another Amazon purchase. Wifey got those pop guns for her kids and just two days ago they popped open the reveal blue and gold confetti that came out of there. The boys were celebrating. Her daughter was like, well, but there's

gold in here too. She's holding out for maybe the mistake from Amazon. Yeah, just clinging on to hope that it could be a girl, because she was the one that wanted a little sister. But she was still smiling though. Everybody seems really happy that it's gonna be a boy. And what can I say, ben some powerful sperm. First it happens on the honeymoon. Second it's a boy and boom goes to dynamite. There you go, Danny G. Man, you get that macheese moment, man, Danny g clearly look

at that. Well, congratulations, I'm happy for it. And you've got built in babysitters. Do the kids know that they'll be the babysitters when you guys want to go out in a few years and all that right? They know? Okay, are thinking a demand and bounty, a ransom of King's ransom to watch future Danny G. Danny G Radio two point oh, the next future broadcaster. We'll do what my mom did when I was a kid babysitting for her. She would bring me back a bag of gummy worms

from Costco and say, here, you're filthy animal. This is for babysitting for five hours. Did I ever tell you the story? Me and my my older brother, we were deputized the last time we ever watched my younger brother.

My parents went out to a nice meal and uh we were we were doing wrestling moves on the sofa, me, my brother, my older brother, my younger brother, and uh, my younger brother ended up breaking his arm jumping off the top of the top of the sofa, and my mom all, my god, she had so much guilt as a Jewish mother. She's like, I can't believe kids for one night and that never again, never again. We totally ruined that the rest of my mom's life and no, no more babysitting. But it was quite the quite a

very memorable experience. I have a quick baby sitting tale. I loved babysitting my little sisters. They were pretty easy to deal with, my little brothers from my stepdad. They were some little assholes. There's Matthew who wound up in juvenile hall. Okay, so that, yeah, that's a whole another story. But he was always the one out in the backyard getting into trouble. His younger brother, Aaron was fighting with him and I heard them arguing in the backyard. That

was a usual thing. I'm like whatever, So I'm kind of popping my head back there once in a while to make sure they're not killing each other. But I hear a a pop but air pop, and then I hear a kid screaming. I run to the backyard. There's Matthew a baby gun rifle in his arm, and there's Aaron on the other side of the backyard, blubbering, just weeping. Matthew shot Aaron with a baby gun. What Ben, He came within inches of his left eye. Oh that isn't funny.

Why would you do that? What could of dumbass? Yeah, m So my mom gets home and I have to exploit ain this baby gun and how he almost lost his eyeball. Oh my god. Fun times. Yeah, the horrors of babysitting. Cheez Louise. I hope my son grows up to have none of their d n A. Oh this is and you gotta make sure. My advice here, you know, fatherly advice is I think you know this. You gotta get the kid, especially in these days, you gotta get

the kid. If you wanted to watch the games with you, you gotta get him hooked early, right, otherwise he will he will migrate to the video games. Great to the tell other things. But if you can get them hooked early on, you're good. Right, that's the the first few years. Like I've had some experience. I won't get into it here, but did not do the oldo the hookaroo, and you pay the price down the line. I kind of feel like my son is gonna come out in a raider onesie.

You think is when I will be silver and the other black. Like I was joking, I told my tender Ronnie. I said, Oh, don't worry, he's gonna come out with an eye patch already on his eye. He'll be coming out with like a gold chain like Al Davis back in a jumpsuit, you know, white jumps a little Cligaruh. That's great. See, now you gotta come up with a name though, right, that's a whole another ball of wax

act a very important thing. The name. We talked about that, so you gotta gotta play around with that, and who decides it? Do you decided the wife do it? Did you flip a coin? That's a tough one. It's crazy that you bring that up, because it's like naming rights to a stadium. All right. I was told weeks and weeks ago that I got to decide the name, and I was like, man, that is really cool of my chick to tell me I have that honor. Like nobody's gonna fight me on it. That's for me to decide.

But then we do this stupid gender reveal guns and after they clean up all the confetti mess, they're talking about names for a boy because now obviously they know it's a boy. Let's find a boy's name. And suddenly I'm on the outside looking in and all these other people are trying to make my executive decision for me. They're trying to that's trying to encourage you or what's

trying to sway the vote? Ya the judge. Yeah. Instantly, my girl comes upstairs and says, oh, we were all talking downstairs and we like the name blank, We like this name. Look, I have a list of names now in my phone. Wait a second, what happened to this being my decision and say, oh no, well I have to agree with it, hey told Stall. Now you see you've got multi multiple variables on this because you've got

first name, second name, you a middle name. But then some people put two middle names in there, right, so you could do the two. That's kind of confusing the two minds. Yeah, some people do too. Last names. Now, that's just too many names, a lot of names. Yeah. And the other thing too about the name game is you've got you gotta worry about the initials because kids

are assholes. As you know, you work at a school too, and these kids if you come up with like my my middle name starts with an S so bs and uh, and then my last name starts with him so b M, which is a code for bowel movement. So as you can imagine the assholes on the playground, like the like the Google, So you gotta you gotta look out for

that as well. You got like you gonna have a good first name and a lot and kind of have it rhyme with the last name, especially you know, boys not gonna who knows, but these days but I likely not going to change their name when they get older, right, so that their last name is going to stay the same. You have to have a perspective of the bully. So when you look at a potential name, you try to rhyme everything bad that you can with it, Like are there any curse words? Does it sound like any slur?

But all those negroes look the same. Producer's note, He said, necros is in the pictures that were brothers, So don't get your shorts in a bunch. Yeah all right, Well, well, I'm sure we'll get more updates on the fifth Hour podcast as the Life. I can't wait for birth. Follow you to get here at point Dexter, my new son, point Dexter. How about off? All right, So one of my michigas is, as my grandfather would say back in his day, is in the kitchen. I've been dabbling in that.

Uh if only my mom was around, she'd be very impressed. She's not around, unfortunately. But the culinary arts. So we talked about this on the podcast. Fajita's Cheese Steak Burgers, The Grittle Life, Making making cookies, Baking, Benny the Baker, The Chocolate Tiers, so good times. This past weekend, I got a bug under my rug, under my skin. Uh this past weekend actually after we went dancing to the Cicada Club. I don't usually eat late at night. I only eat one meal a day. I usually fast a

couple of days a week. But I decided, you know, it's New Year's Eve, it's a celebrate, and so a little late night food run to the mecca fat Cells in the hood in actually in the wood in Hollywood. So we went to that location over there in Highland in in Hollywood, just down from the is it not? Is it l A Live? No, it's not l A Live. What's the Hollywood and Highland? I think is the okay? Just down the street from there. Anyway, if you're not in l A, you have no idea what I'm saying.

But uh, I got my normal fat cells. I want I want to Texas fat Texas Barbecue. Oh yeah, classic. I like, I was going big. I was like, let me go back to my old eating days. And I ate those cheese steak frost delicious, delicious. And then while I'm eating it, and I didn't tell my wife this, but I got in my head, I'm like you know what, I think I could make some of this ship at

the house. I can recreate fat cells. But I'm looking at the Fat Texas Barbecue, like, there's there's mozzarella sticks, there's chicken fingers, all kinds of ship, and I'm like, I don't think I can do that. That's too complicated. I'd have to cook up like seven different things and put it all together. I don't think I can pull that off. But then I looked at the cheese steak fries. I said, you know what, that motherfucker, I can make those cheese steak fries. I can make those. And so

I did. I over the weekend I did. I decided to make a rip off version. I took a couple of photos of what they look like at Fat Sous, took a photo of the menu. You'll be hearing from their attorneys the ingredients and uh and yeah, I recreated them and Chef's kiss Danny. It came out great. I cooked up the rib, I the grilled onions, I made all that, put that on the side, uh. And then

I cooked up the fries. And then I put the fries down, put the steak and the onions on top, and then I put like a pounded cheese and then I put in the oven for like fifteen minutes and it was great. It was wondering. Now, not everything was a success, Danny, because I also made poutine, and I love poutine, but it didn't taste as good. I think it's because I had too much to drink and probably ate too much prior to the poutine. You gotta you gotta paste yourself with this kind of stuff. Dan, So

not a big poutine fan. Not I like puttine. Well, there's different kinds of poutine um and and I do like it. It's not something I eat all that much, but I I do like the poutine, the cheese steak fries. If you like cheese steak, you like cheese steak first, you might have to come over sometime, Danny'll take a seven days to get here, but I'll make some some pop not cheese steak friends, I'll make those for you. So anyway, that was my my adventure the good eats

over the weekend. So pretty Have you ever been to Canada? Yes, for like a couple of hours, but it wasn't really Canada. It was Niagara Falls, the Canadian side. Have you have you? But No, I've never been, and somebody told me, well, you would like poutine if you had it there in Canada. No, poutine is really yeah, I mean it's it's pretty good. So it's just cheese curd fries and then gravy. That's

traditional Canadian poutine. But they have like fast food restaurants in Canada that have all kinds of flavors of of poutine. There's a place in Anaheim that I've gone to a few times. It has like fried chicken poutine with like white gravy fried chicken pieces on top. That's really good. Yeah that sounds good. That's solid. That'll that'll fill you up pretty good. Um yeah, but I have the putine,

the cheese kurds. It's also an homage to my my brother who lives in Wisconsin, because there's much of the cheese, the Wisconsin cheese and all. Anyway, now that you got us all hungry. Pop goes the culture poo poo, p thanks Ohio. So there a few of these pop goes the culture stories. So this one, how about this out of Tokyo Danny Tokyo is So these are actual pop culture stories that we've found randomly throughout the week, and we're saving them for this podcast. So the story out

of Tokyo that is so crowded. How crowded is it in Tokyo? I'm glad you asked. It is so crowded in Tokyo that the government is paying families to leave Tokyo. Damn, how nuts? So is that? I mean crazy? It's like, hey, we're full. We wish California would do that. Well, people have been leaving a little bit, but not not enough to enough, not enough to affect the traffic patterns. But yeah,

that's the big headline there. Japan is offering to pay families to move out of its overcrowded capital, trying to revitalize the countryside towns and boost the falling birth rate. Starting in April, families in metro Tokyo, including those headed by single parents, will be eligible to receive one million yen, which sounds like a lot of money, but it's seven thousand seven dollars US per child if they move to the less populated areas across the country. That's not enough money.

Well it's a million yen, but that doesn't yet. It doesn't seem straight. Yeah, unless it's not. I think I should be paid in yen, I'd be a millionaire, right, will not be great if if you say, hey, I got paid in yen, I'm a yen millionaire man, that's great. Come on. Um, yeah, that's the that's a start. Tokyo is the most populous city in that country, with thirty seven million residents. How many people live in New York? I know in l A there's like twelve millions something

like that. Maybe a little more than that. But that's like double New York, isn't it posted double weep city? I think? Yeah, New York has, like I want to say, nineteen million people crushed into that little space. Wow. I've never been to Tokyo. I have not. I have no idea, but I've seen photos of it. I'd like to maybe get there at some point. And I don't know you ever been to Tokyo, even been to Asia? You've never been?

That would be a cool trip. I know my brother and his family go there often because his wife, her mom lives there. Um, so I hear about it. I see pictures, but I've never personally got to go. Yeah. We have a fair amount of listeners on Fox Sports TRADEO in Japan and in some of the different countries in Asia. A lot of ex pats military America were on the American Forces Network, so it's it's broadcast all

over the globe. And it's like I've been told by these cats that listen a lot that it's like a little slice of home, like they feel like they're back at home. Has like home cooking. You know, you're you're away from your home for a long time, So it's kind of cool. How about this for embarrassing pop goes the culture. Cristiano Ronaldo, the legendary soccer player. He sold his soul. He took the big check from Saudi Arabia and at his introductory news conference in Saudi Arabia, do

you see this, he called Saudi Arabia South Africa. I think they cut off one of his toes as it was time. Yeah, he made the slip up there. He stepped out, two thousands of fans cheering him on. But the Portuguese legend h he had the big screw up there and he didn't do that. Well you know this, it sounds like he's so desperate to get the money. Ronaldo, he's like the comedian that you know. That joke is like you're in Detroit. You know it's so great here

in Cleveland. Yeah, I know. It was the old south West want to Get Away. Yeah. The lead singer of that band was like, Chicago, thanks for having us in there in Detroit. Yeah, for two million dollars a year, you might want to remember the country you're being. I mean, I would think I don't know how that all works.

I'm not a soccer guy, but I would assume part of the reason that this team in Saudi Arabia signed this legendary player to a two hundred million dollar a year contract is because they want to brag that this guy's in their country and is proud to be in their country, even if he's not. So there is there? Is that? All right? The next up on pop goes the culture. An employee arrested and charged with stealing over

three hundred thousand dollars. The authorities say he was inspired by the movie Office Space funneled just a few cents from every account, remember Hyeah exactly. This guy Ernie uh is his name. He's a guy at Seattle arrested by police, charged with stealing over three hundred thousand dollars in his scheme that he lifted directly from the movie Wow, but that and alive? What are you? He? Probably it was pretty cool for a while, right, I think until he

got caught. Yeah. I mean, if you really want to be like the movie, then you gotta burn the place down so that there's no evidence and run off with Jennifer Aniston. It's only a couple of cents. They won't even notice. And then somebody has to somebody has to go meddling, right, and then and messed the whole thing. I've had the steepler. All right, we'll get out. We have backscratcher. Actually, let's do backscratcher. Very important part of

the show. So we asked every week, we asked the electorate in the Mallard Militia, the fans of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny G dan Any G Radio Dany soon to be Daddy G Radio Daddy, and and so we have anyway you know what's going on, give us a nice review on the podcast page on the Apple podcast page. And this week, Danny, did we get one, two or none? Let's shoot for the moon. I'm gonna say we got to day Na na na Ding. You are correct that Danny g. You win a chance

to listen to these reviews, isn't that exciting? Ben sucks? All right? So the first one comes from fur Dog Fries. I'll get you some of the cheese steak fries, No problem, man, I'll make those up for you. So the best podcast around, the best podcast around, fur Dog, he says. Updated review for the fifth hour is required listening for fans of

the award winning Ben Mallow Show. Ben and the Great Danny g jam pack each episode with unique content not found on the radio show, like the l Bag, which is not just an enlightened segment of Ask Bend like a Brian Finley update, episodes are about forty minutes long and also also just like a Brian Finley update, always leave you wanting more. Thanks for keeping me entertained on the weekends. Do you both get five stars? Says for Dog,

this guy ferg Dog is ready to deliver. Man. There was a guy that was trolling me on on Twitter and fur Dog was asking me to blow the dog whistle. He was ready to go into attack mode. And I said, this guy is not a big enough guy. We're not gonna We're not gonna attack that guy. He's not a big enough guy. We gotta save the Mallard militia can only be used. We can't activate those weapons, the social media weaponry until it's a big enough name, right, you can't.

You can't be fighting a little people. You gotta fight the big people. You gotta fight above your weight class, not below your weight class. All right, last one from Gary in Pittsburgh. Thank you Gary, he says, great mesh Ben, I've listened since the beginning of the weekend podcast. God bless you, and I have to say You're rapport with Danny Gee is so much more fluid and entertaining than the stick that Mr West of the four oh five was dealing wild shots at Mr West the four five.

Little karma there. Uh he can't. Uh, it can't be anymore east of the four oh five than the state with the mouse ears, That is correct, Uh, he says. I'm not a big gambler. So I am waiting for the interviews to ramp back up on the Friday podcast. But the Saturday show is still top notch, even if it's about the silly stuff that happened to your day to day lives. Keep up the great work. Just got a new iPad, so posting this review was easy peasy,

signed Gary in Pittsburgh. He gave us five stars, five stars. Danny g and how can people work? Thank you? Gary? Yeah, man, it's pretty easy to do. You just click onto the description of this very podcast. In there, you'll see there's a little button that says write a review. You click on that make a user name. It's easy and free. Click on the five stars if you think we're worthy, and then write your review. Boom done. Yeah you want to give us seven stars? I mean that's that's pretty well.

It sounded like fur gave you five and gave me five, so that's actually ten star review right there. I'm not a numbers guy, but that doesn't seem to add up. Yeah, Furg has a lot of time to listen to audio content. This guy is a bulldog. This guy fur dog man. He's listening every radio show, every podcast. He listens more than my wife. This guy is unbelievable. My wife doesn't actually listen that much at all. But uh, but man, he's he's he's all about it. I gotta meet that

Furg Dog at some point. He's a big, finly guy too. But one of the next time we do one of these meet and greets. We gotta get furg Dog and his buddy to come out and hang out there. We gotta shout out all the regulars. Man, the p ones are the best. And then Ben looking at the numbers of this podcast. Every weekend, there's new numbers, which means new listeners. So if you're new, we appreciate you. God bless you. Yeah, please tell a friend. That's the only

advertising we have. We don't have the Cowhard budget. We don't have the Dan Patrick budget. We're not giving away sprinter vans. Uh, we don't have any of that stuff. But we love doing it. We love doing it, and I don't think I would have handled that very well, Danny having a big budget and all that stuff. No, you know, the only one who advertises you now, Caveno keeps mentioning that you're his new favorite on the network.

I'm honored. I'm honored. And let me tell you, Danny, I mean that show blowing up Cavino and Rich and you guys have your own I saw in the studio the other that is these footballs in there. Yeah, those guys are so into their show they put their own money into a promotional item that was really cool. That was really neat. I saw that floating around. I might have to get my hands on one of those things because those are those are pretty cool. I could hook

you up. I know somebody, you know, a guy, you know. Yeah. I was looking at as I was like, I've been here for a long time. I don't think I've ever seen an item like this, like this is like this is this is crazy? Is this is really cool? So trust me, it was weeks and weeks of red tape that I went through because they had never been done at the network before. Oh no, no, hand to god, I've been there since the beginning of the network and

nobody ever had any item like that. So already, Cavino and Rich they're moving mountains at Fox Sports Radio, going to areas that no one else, not even Rich Herrera or Bob Golic or Genie's Alaska or Kevin Fraser, has been able to do. It took me about twenty five emails. I mean it was it was a couple of months of continual work on it. So when those boxes arrived over the holiday, it was amazing. I couldn't believe the

delivery came. Mana from heaven, all right, we'll get out on that any to promote Danny other than those great footballs that Cavino and Rich have, anything at all, anything at all. It is Saturday, so I'm actually gonna be going in to have some fun with Jonas Knox, who the hell was that? And then after that it'll be the one and only Loose Cannon himself, Steve Hartman along with I from Salam So it'll be a fun afternoon

on Fox Sports radios. Danny, enjoy that. I will be sitting on my ass watching you know, the Chiefs and your Raiders and then Jacksonville and Tennessee today, hoping that my bets are winning, and I will likely be baking some kind of nonsense in the kitchen which will tell you about next week on the show. Does and have a great rest of your day today and we will catch you back in the saddle with the mail bag on Sunday. Let's go stid Hum, come on, man, go Raiders later, Skater, yeah you said it.